Fall 2011

TransNEWS FOR ALFRED STATE ALUMNI,itions FAMILY, AND FRIENDS

To Those Who Have Fallen

A soldier runs into battle, doing what he does best. With bullets and grenades flying everywhere Even the best may not make it out alive. This is their fight, to end the evil in the world. Taking on the enemy one at a time The bravery and loyalty of Americans shine through. And when we realize why we are there, Memories of that horrific day Still burn at the souls of men each day To those who have fallen We salute you. You will always be remembered.

Marcus Phillips, ’06 Reprinted from Ergo, Nov. 11, 2010

The Ultimate Role Models 1 1 Alumni Relations Stay Connected Director’s ASC News RSS feeds Message www.alfredstate.edu/news/all/feed Happy Autumn, Alumni! Upcoming ASC Facebook Fan Page Events www.facebook.com/AlfredStateCollege How quickly summer passes and fall moves in. Once again, summer and early fall proved to be an extremely busy and fun ASC YouTube Channel time at Alfred State. On behalf of the Alumni Council, I would New Horizons like to extend a sincere thank you to the many alumni and Forum: Restoration www.youtube.com/AlfredStateCollege friends who joined us at one or more of the alumni events. after Katrina - Meeting new alumni and hearing the wonderful stories of their ASC Wellsville Follow ASC on Twitter time at Alfred State is one of the most enjoyable aspects of my Volunteers www.twitter.com/AlfredState position! Keeping On Thursday, Dec. 1, As the Alumni Council continues to move forward to support 6:30 - 8 p.m. its mission, we encourage feedback from alumni on events previously held or recommendations on different programs or Culinary Arts events alumni would like to see. Remember, our efforts are Holiday Buffet placed on the betterment of all of you as well as the mission of Thursday, Dec. 1, the College. 5 - 7 p.m.

Come back for a visit to the place that was once a second Open House home for at least two years. There are many terrific and Saturday, March 24, exciting projects that have been completed and many currently 8:30 a.m. underway. I also strongly encourage alumni who are interested in serving on the Council or becoming more involved to please Open House contact our office at (607) 587-3931 or e-mail us at alumni@ Sunday, April 15, alfredstate.edu. We want to hear from you! 8:30 a.m. Hot Dog Day 2012 Contents May all your holidays be filled with health, happiness, & love! Saturday, April 21 Celebrating Our Veterans...... 4-10 Warm regards, Civic Engagement ...... 11-15 Alumni Weekend Choir Concert Homecoming/Family Weekend.....16 Sunday, April 29 Colleen Argentieri, ’85 College News...... 18 Director of Alumni Relations Commencement 2012 School of Applied Technology...... 20 Alfred State Alumni Council Members Sunday, May 13, David Post, Chair, ’83/’85 12 noon

School of Management and Valerie Tober, Vice Chair and Secretary, ’99 Engineering Technology...... 20 Innovation Lorraine Gaffney, ’86 in Technical School of Arts and Sciences...... 21 Kandi Geibel, ’92 Education Carol Herbst, ’85 to Advance Development News...... 22 Wren Keber, ’06 Sustainability Robert Livingston, ’56 Conference Alumni News...... 24 Christine Loperfido, ’72 June 14 -17 Jeffrey Marshall, ’81 Achievers...... 26 Marjorie Morgan, ’80 Veterans’ Business Boot Camp Sports News...... 27 Michael Murray, ’78 William Snyder, ’01 June 18-22 Milestones...... 28 JoAnne White, ’94 Bonita Woodring, ’68 Colleen Argentieri, Director of Alumni Relations, ’85 Dr. John M. Anderson, President, Alfred State College

2 Dear Friends of the College

It is indeed an honor to introduce this the words of their attackers, they were issue of Transitions to you. Americans. They died because of how they lived—as free men and women, As you know, at Alfred State we have proud of their freedom, proud of their been stressing civic engagement and country, and proud of their country’s leadership for some time. In this enduring cause: the cause of human issue, we honor those who represent freedom. the epitome of civic engagement: our American service veterans and first Despite the great tragedy of Sept. 11, responders…from our earliest military 2001, we also count our blessings, as heroes to those current heroes who ironic as that might seem. But we still continue to volunteer to the ultimate have plenty to be grateful for: degree, risking their lives to serve the • the astonishing courage of the larger community…their beloved country. responders who went into the burning trade center and saved lives, 400 of And so, in this issue, we honor our whom did not return… veterans, our servicemen and women, • the remarkable bravery of the workers first responders, and everyday heroes at the Pentagon who went into burning who keep us protected at home. They rubble to save lives… are the definitive role models, not • the compassion of the people in the only for our students, but for us all, as World Trade Center who comforted one we continue to make our way in this another and never gave up to the very unsettled world. last… • the workers who spent weeks, then Our nation was plunged into temporary months, extending into years, in the chaos on Tuesday, Sept. 11 (2001). recovery and now, rebuilding at Ground 9/11, the numbers we Americans turn Zero… to for help in an emergency, have taken • the outpouring of international support on new meaning for us. We remember in the days and weeks following those where we were and our reactions as we attacks, and finally; watched the horrific scenes unfolding on • the American soldiers and our allies, TV before our eyes as the world trade many of whom have also sacrificed towers collapsed. their lives protecting our freedom.

These tragic memories remain indelible We continue to look to them for in our minds because they remind us of leadership and the true spirit of civic the responsibility we all have to preserve engagement. our free society…which is unlike any other in the world. Thank you. We are a society of heroes…heroes who are committed to the relentless preservation of freedom. John M. Anderson, PhD We set aside the anniversary of 9/11 to honor and demonstrate our unyielding gratitude to those who not only lost their lives on 9/11, but to all of those who PS: Be sure to read some of the have fallen in the pursuit of freedom and letters ASC has received from veterans democracy. But it doesn’t end there. throughout the years reproduced in these Many sacrifices are required to maintain pages. It’s an interesting glimpse into the a free society, whether that sacrifice past! is made by an innocent bystander, a rescuer, or defender of freedom. We honor those heroes, and we also remember as heroes the victims who died that day. They died because, in

2 3 The Marketing & Communications Department recently came across a box of old letters from veterans who were keeping in touch with their alma mater. We found them too interesting not to share. Ergo, student literary & artistic magazine, also recently published a Veterans edition, some of those entries have also been reprinted here. What follows is just a sampling...

April 8, 1945

Dear Mrs. Cottrell, [editor’s note: Helen Cottrell A Soldier’s Code was an ASC secretary] January, 15, 2003, changed my life I have had the good fortune to receive two letters from you within a month. The forever. On this day I was called first letter was a little bit long in getting here, but the news was just as good as ever. upon for leadership, loyalty, duty, If you have as much enjoyment getting them to us as we do reading them, then I am respect, self-service, honor, integrity, sure we have something that just can’t be beaten. and personal courage. I took an oath to defend this great nation with my I suppose you are interested in some of the things that I am doing, so I will try and life. I volunteered my services for a write about them as much as the censor will permit. First of all I would like to say war thousands of miles away. Why that my outfit was the first to cross the Rhine river. They captured the Remagen was I going? I don’t know. When bridge before the Germans had a chance to destroy it. I suppose you read all about would I return? Who knows? But, it in the papers, however, I feel so proud of it that I just have to include it in all of my as God is my witness, I vow I will letters. Now we are well into Germany and heading straight for Berlin. I am seeing return. On a jet, I flew into the a lot of interesting things as we move forward. I guess it will be pretty hard for any clear blue skies, to a land I did not of us to come back to a classroom and learn history out of a textbook after having know. Will I make it? Will I go on? traveled thru these countries. I found the Rhine valley to be a beautiful country. It is This I must, for I am an American a great farming district and also it has many vineyards. Yes, I even had a taste of the soldier, a protector of the greatest famous Rhine wine and it met my approval a hundred percent. nation on Earth, sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States. A It is now beginning to get warm here and the trees are beginning to leaf out. year goes by with many sights and Germany reminds me a great deal of New York State with all its rolling hills, woods stories, but all must come to an end. and country brooks. It seems that every piece of land that is tillable is being plowed Not by jet, but this time by ship, I for raising crops. travel the many seas: the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, I can’t tell you much about the German people as we aren’t allowed to fraternize. the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic. However to sum them up in a few words, they are like that title of a song “They’re With my journey almost at an end, either too young or too old.” Yes, one doesn’t see many people my age as they are I keep telling myself, I will make all engaged in the war. it home. With seventeen months behind me, I can say that I’m proud I have seen many foreign workers that we have liberated and they sure are a happy to be home. I am proud to be an people now. The roads are always full of these people walking back to their native American Soldier. I am proud of my country. They are always waving and cheering at us. I guess if I waved at every one country and its flag. I want to look that I would wear my arm out because it seems that there just isn’t any end of them. back and say I am proud to have served my country as a soldier. This is a Soldier’s Code. I don’t suppose you would recognize me if you could see me. I am now sporting a moustache and have my hair cut down to about a quarter of an inch. You know looks don’t mean much around here as there are no girls to be attracted by. The way the Anonymous (2004) Germans have been giving up lately, I think all you have to do is look ugly enough and Reprinted from Ergo, Nov. 11, 2010 they will come running out of their foxholes yelling “Komrad.” Yes the war certainly looks very good for us now and I am hoping that it won’t take long now. I am sure that if we can all get together after this is finished, that we will be able to have a representative from every outfit in the Army and then we can all tell you every detail about this war. By then you will be able to become a first class WAC. Gee, wouldn’t that be nice.

Well, I hope you get as much enjoyment out of reading this as I have writing it, and I’ll try to write again when time permits. Until then, keep the home front humming as it won’t be too long before we will all be back again.

Sincerely, Edward Yochem Cpl. Edward Yochem 32139601 Hdgs. Co. 131st Ordnance

4 “The Rock”

July 26, 1945

Dear Mrs. Cottrell,

I have owed you a letter for along time. Now that another interesting bulletin has come to me, it’s about time that letter got written.

The scoop of the season is that Bill Tkach was married on July 3rd. He was given a reception at their folks home at Hudson, NY. His wife, Susan, is a Dayton, Ohio, girl. Bill is expecting his captaincy in a short time and is now on his way or is already in the Philippines. Yes, I know it surprised me, too, and we’ve been corresponding ever since we’ve been in the service. He’d evidently been going with her for some time but never mentioned her in his letters. Don’t know his new address yet.

Got a letter from Gene Moyer the other day. He’s in Atlanta, Ga. in instrument school. When his Squadron (UPB-215) was decommissioned, he got orders to NATS (National Air Transport Service). His address is only temporary, so won’t bother to enclose it. He told me he got married. Got 30 days leave after the Squadron’s decommissioning.

My Squadron (UPB-206) was also broken up, but we ensigns had to go where they wanted with no choice of duty. You can see where I ended up. This is an island of volcanic origin. The only animals are goats and iguana. The latter are not nearly so fierce as the picture in the encyclopedia would indicate. Guess this is one of the few sections of the world where they exist. I’m still patrolling in PBM’s.

Thanks a lot for that pamphlet on vocational training. I’m particularly interested in the electrical machining and power, and electrical construction service. Could you send me more details? My electricity will need a lot of brushing up before I’m ready for a job again, and those courses look on the outside what I’ve been looking for. I feel I’ll be too old to want to go on to get an engineering degree and I know what Alfred is like already. Would there be apartments so we fellows could bring our wives? I’ve been away from mine too long now and would most emphatically want her with me, then.

Guess that will have to be all for this time. Thanks a lot for the bulletin and hope to see all of you sooner than we expect.

Sincerely, Dick

Incidentally, where did you obtain my address?

Ensign Richard L. Allen VPB-74

4 July 21, 1945 Gerald F. Babchak, ’80, Dear Sirs, Agriculture-Plant and Soil Science, Wellsville, enlisted in the Army I have been intending to write for some time but writing in June 1966 after high school happens to be just one of the things that I seldom do. I was graduation. He completed basic home on leave a short time ago and while home I had planned on doing a little training at Paris Island, NC. He was visiting in Alfred however the only time that I was in Alfred was in the evening. There a security file manager with the 3rd were quite a few changes that I noticed one in particular. Instead of finding the Battalion, 4th Service Regiment at Bartlet full of fellows there were girls running around in their place. It was almost like Okinawa, Japan; a firefighter with going to a girls school instead of a coeducational school. the 1st Force Service Regiment, 1st Marine Division in Vietnam; I heard from quite a few of the class mates but it is getting so I receive very few and served in operation control letters from any of the fellows. The one I hear from most is Wendell K. Smith. for the Headquarters Battalion in Wendell seems to like army life quite well but like the most of us he can hardly wait Philadelphia. Babchak is a member for the war to end so he can be home once again. of the Allegany County Vietnam Veterans Association, Veterans I have been quite fortunate since I have been in the Navy especially since I was able of Foreign Wars, and 1st Marine to follow the same type of work I was studying for while I was in school. I am sure Corps Association. He’s a Marine that the start I had in school helped me very much since radio was the subject I was Corps representative at the Bath VA taking. Medical Center. Among the awards Babchak has earned are the Combat Action Ribbon, National Defense I would like to give you a little description of what goes on in submarine warfare but Service Medal, Vietnam Service that is impossible and no doubt will be for some time. Life aboard a sub is quite Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, interesting and we all have the best that can possibly be given to us. The food is the Navy Unit Citation and Vietnamese best that can be found in the Navy and to make it even better we have open ice box Cross of Gallantry with Cross Palms. so we are able to eat any time of the day. Liberty whenever possible is hard to beat as most of it is spent in rest camps where we can go and come as we please. One good example of the rest camps we stay at is the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. It is the Gerald, speaking about the Allegany best hotel on the Hawaiian Islands. We don’t always have the best places for these County Vietnam Veterans Organization rest camps but we do have the best living quarters available. There are many more camp in Alma, with which he has advantages however I will not try to say that every thing is perfect because there are long been involved: “Over time, the a few disadvantages of course but no matter what a person does there a few draw membership grew from 35 to 100. backs. We are in the process of expanding our membership to include all veterans. We want these young guys I wouldn’t mind coming back to Alfred School but for the type of work I am doing to come (to the camp) who are having I think I will have to go to some other school as I have completed my two years of problems with Post-Traumatic Stress radio at Alfred. I would however like to find out what engineering schools you would Disorder. It’s quiet and peaceful. recommend with radio and television as their curriculum. The reason I am asking They’ve got a camp to stay at and this is I feel that you probably have better contact with these schools and can give people to talk to.” me better information than any one person. I would like to find out the very best school possible no matter where it is located. This will give me a chance to find out what the entrance requirements are so that I will have a little chance to prepare for entrance. Join our Facebook group I would appreciate it very much if you could send me this information. I also want to www.facebook.com/groups/ thank you for sending me the school paper it has helped me in keeping in contact ASCVeterans. This group is for with some of the class and I enjoy reading the paper very much. Alfred State College veteran alumni, faculty, staff, and students to Sincerely, meet, share information, reconnect, John T. Lusk and network. Veterans’ dependents and friends of Alfred State College who support veterans are also welcome to John T. Lusk RT 1/C join as well as family members of those USS Titlefish (S.S. 307) who are in active duty. We want to meet you and hear your story.

6 With a Fifteenth Air Force Service Command Depot Group-Italy:

High above ground, in the control tower of a Fifteenth Air Force Service Command air dept, S/Sgt. William F. Lyon, Kansas City, Kan, control tower operator, gives the “all clear’ signal to a taxiing Liberator. Take- offs are speeded up with the powerful blinker lamp equipped with sights for accurate aim. S/Sgt. Lyon is the husband of Mrs. Virginia Lyon, Kansas City, Kan, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Lyon, Angelica, NY. He attended the NY State School of Agriculture, Alfred University, NY, and prior to his entrance into the armed service in June 1941, was employed as a customer service engineer by the International Business Machine Corp., Pittsburgh, PA.

(photo by S/Sgt. R.O. Peters)

6 7 September 2, 2010

Dear Dad,

I am writing this to let you know how proud I am of you for your service to our country.

World War II was a devastating event for all involved and you served proudly. You were one of the fortunate ones who returned home safely, and you didn’t squander your safe return; you made the best of what your veteran status brought you.

Why I am so proud of you?

Well you served in WWII during the time* when a black man was not respected, and you didn’t make excuses or let that deter from your goal of becoming a successful person and raising a family. I am writing this letter to say, “Dad, you have succeeded; you raised me and my sister and made sure that we had every opportunity to become successful adults. Your outlook on life and your experiences as a black soldier during WWII allowed you to give your family all that you could and to extend that support and help to your sisters, to your brothers as well as to your in-laws.”

I am especially proud that my father has been so unselfish and giving, yet a sage leader and a veteran of WWII. *It was not until July 26, 1948, that President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981 and ended segregation in the Thank you for having such great values and Armed Forces for making sure you passed those values on to all that cared to listen. Thank you for being there for me and most of all thank you for Comer Chambliss’ son is Mel Chambliss, DVM, Associate Professor, ASC Agriculture and Veterinary Technology being my DAD! Department Sincerely your son, Reprinted from Ergo, Nov. 11, 2010 Melvin C. Chambliss Business Bootcamp for American Veterans June 18 - 22, 2012 • 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. Each day will include three meals, two To register, or for additional classroom instruction periods, and information, please contact Alfred Join us for a week-long business boot guest speakers. On-campus lodging State College’s Center for Continuing camp offered to American veterans - will be available in close proximity Education at (607) 587-4015 or e-mail free of charge. Space is limited to the to classroom locations. Participants [email protected], or visit www. first 25 registrants, so register early! staying on campus will be required to alfredstate.edu/ccet. arrive on Sunday evening, June 17. All materials, as well as expenses for food and lodging, have been donated.

8 Journal Entry, Japan, 1961 And we’re up. The C 124 heaving off the runway like a bull rhinoceros, storming into the air, most unbirdlike… some ungodly beast god, trumpeting, demanding the Earth let him go… Most everyone is unbuckled, walking about the interior of the plane, feeling it out, like customers in a showroom smells like your first day on the factory floor, machinery and metalwork of all sorts. Sweat and pee in steel running in steel channeled rivulets. Up front sits a helicopter – its blades clipped, packed away, a huge pair of chopsticks. Twelve Roses

Many sleep. Some in overcoats, fatigue jackets, shirtsleeves, A Rose: for the father and mother who lost their only son/ clothes draped and drying anyplace you can find a hook or daughter. strap in this architecture of an emergency room, a waiting room, a lost cave in the night. A Rose: for the man or woman who lost their only grandson/ granddaughter. We sway with the grinding engines, only the bright orange of the wing tip to feed the eye… And then below a lighted metropolis, coming up, lights from eight car electric express A Rose: for the mom who lost her son. “On one occasion trains, idly fast, phosphorescent rod bacilli skittering over some when I took a package to the post office to be sent huge dead host. Bounce; landed on the concrete stretches of to my son, not knowing if he would ever receive it,” Atima, near Osaka, where Project 14 drops from its nightsize she said, “I was told by the postal clerk that anyone jaws two black tusks, skids rolling down the helicopter in Vietnam didn’t deserve to get a package.” and its long, slender boxed blades. And then, tiny, mostly unnoticed, the other silent cargo. Metal coffin. And our running A Rose: for all the men and women who died not listed on commentary. the Wall. From my heart for the 28 men who died on the USS “I wonder if he has a copy of his orders.” Enterprise en route to Vietnam, their names are not on the Wall. “Oh yeah, got em direct from Saint Pete.” A Rose: for the 900+ who lost their life the first day in “Sent straight from the big bad joke in the sky.” country.

Sealing up the front once more, good friends with our huge A Rose: for the 1400+ who lost their life the last day in metal room, we roar again away from the lighted earth, country. shuddering into a sea of darkness, comrades minus one. A Rose: for the over 7,000 women who served 8 names on Joe Flynn, ASC SUNY distinguished service professor emeritus the Wall. Especially for Sharon Lane 23W112 who Specialist Fourth Class - US Army Security Agency 1959-62 died from shrapnel wounds from a rocket attack. Reprinted from Ergo, Nov. 11, 2010 A Rose: for the more than 300,000 wounded veterans. Joe Flynn in Seoul, Korea A Rose: for the 2.7 million men and women who served. 1961 A Rose: for the 4,120 men and women lost from New York State.

A Rose: for the 13 men lost from Allegany County.

A Rose: for the 58,253.

Skip Merrick, ASC associate professor emeritus, Automotive Trades Department

8 9 The Plane Ride

Descending through the clouds over a land that I have never seen before is exhilarating, but the uncertainty that waits beyond this aircraft ride is enough to drive someone insane. We have been on this plane for over fourteen hours, and the air has gone stale with the smell of sweaty bodies and the oil from the weapons that lie On a more local scale, at the feet of soldiers who have only fired at pop-up targets. I’ve been in the Army for three years, and I have experienced many trials, but none has prepared me for faculty, staff, and students this moment. at Alfred State have been One month ago I was working my regular 7 to 5 and had the luxury of going home each night. If anyone were to tell me then that I would be here now, I probably would have laughed. No amount of training is enough to prepare us for the real life situation sacrificing their time and we are about to face. No one told me about this gut feeling I have as the airplane tilts sideways, and out the window, from this elevation, all I can see are flames scattered along the miles of darkness. I know the blazes are coming from the large talents in the service of smoke stacks of the oil refineries, but I envision they are the ceremonial bonfires the warriors of the tribe would use to ward off evil spirits. I can’t help but wonder . . . are others. Not, perhaps, the we the evil spirits?

Looking around the plane, I feel a rush of guilt run over me. I find myself thinking, for life-risking activities of their only a brief moment, that someone on this plane might not be coming back. Maybe that someone is me. I can tell who is thinking about his kids or a loved one, who is scared, and who is excited to be a part of something that will go down in history. Every armed forces counterparts, face appears to glow with its own problems; every face has a different story. Almost everyone on this plane is young, as young as a freshman class on the first day of but working for the greater college. The youth of our nation sits in these undersized spaces, sworn to protect a life and a way of living that they have hardly been a part of long enough to enjoy. good nonetheless. Up until this moment, this was just an ordinary plane ride, but now the airplane is flying low enough that my ears are beginning to pop, and a serious atmosphere spreads over every seat in the cabin like a toxic gas. All conversations stop, and reality sets in. We are in a different country with a culture we don’t understand, about to fight a war we know very little about. Thoughts continue to race through my head. I’m not going to see home for a year. There are people on this plane who What follows are stories haven’t been in the military six months, and they are about to spend every moment of the next 365 days with complete strangers, in a strange land, doing a job they highlighting only a sampling haven’t learned yet. I’m twenty years old, and I am responsible for five other lives on this plane. Five other people will look to me for answers to questions I’ve never been asked. How do I lead someone through a situation I’ve never encountered myself? of the civic outreach ASC I am starting to question whether I’m up to this task. How well do I know my job? I would like to believe I’m pretty proficient; I have many awards and certificates that say I am, but those pieces of paper don’t amount to anything now. All I can do is community members have believe in myself and know that God will see us through. Sometimes it can be hard to find comfort in faith, but faith is all we have right now. My heart feels as if it has engaged in recently. jumped up in my throat, and all I can do is swallow what little saliva I have left to push it down. Every muscle in my body stiffens at the sound of the landing gear taking position. The only sounds now are minds racing. The plane touches down.

Joseph Greenthal, ’06 ASC payment service assistant Army Sergeant E-5 Reprinted from Ergo, Nov. 11, 2010 10 ASC Staffers Lend Helping Hands to Flood Victims After a 25-hour drive, the volunteer team got right to work in Minot, ND. by Gregory Sammons, Chief, University Police ive members of the Alfred State holds a mandatory team meeting Fprofessional staff recently spent followed by dinner prepared by a week in Minot, ND, where they volunteers who take turns with participated in flood relief efforts. all chores required to keep the What follows is a first-person facility humming along. At every account of the trip. meeting, the project leader recaps the day’s events, hears reports After a 25-hour drive, the five- from the team leaders on their member Alfred State volunteer day’s activities (each house team pulled into Minot on had a team leader), sets up Friday morning and went to the assignments for the following coordination center, housed in the day, and allows people to give Minot Public Library. After changing “shout-outs” in recognition clothes, Chanel Wright, executive area’s population and of volunteers spotted working assistant to the College president; Liz devastated more than especially hard or doing Raterman, director, Multicultural Affairs; 4,100 properties) something special. Alfred Deb Mayes, staff assistant, Technology – and fewer than State got an immediate Services; and Scott Bingham, officer, 400 homeowners “shout-out” at the first meeting University Police, and I (Greg Sammons, reportedly having flood insurance, the for driving 25 hours and going University Police Chief) went directly to homeowners were left with few choices: directly to work at a job site. two assigned addresses to join work (1) with equity or clear ownership, sell teams in progress. The organization the house ‘as is’ to recover as much of On the meeting room wall, under the or- supplied the masks and tools. the investment as possible, (2) repair ganization banner, is a compelling project and rebuild the house through personal ‘scoreboard’ that illustrates the number While the addresses might change funds or a loan, or (3) with little equity or of volunteers who have passed through, day-to-day, the work in each home was a big mortgage, walk away and declare the cumulative number of volunteer essentially the same: remove all drywall bankruptcy. hours contributed, and a rough cost esti- and flooring right down to the studs and mate based on prevailing laborer wages sub-flooring, de-nail the walls, floors, and The Souris (Fr. for Mouse) River comes that reveals the amount of money the ceilings, and remove and carry debris to from Canada and after passing Minot, project has saved the residents of Minot. piles within 10 feet of the street curb. makes its way back north into Canada. In the basements, the work was much When record-setting waters threatened All Hands manages to accomplish darker and more physically taxing: not Canadian communities, dams were great things with minimal bureaucracy. only did we remove saturated insulation, opened up and the water was sent Because they don’t charge people to drywall and nails, but we also shoveled to Minot. Warned in advance, people volunteer, don’t have a minimum time and carried out the muck that had abandoned their homes which received commitment, do house and feed the covered the cellar floors and seemingly historic amounts of water that surged volunteers on site, expenses for the vol- everything else below ground level. well past all attempts to build the unteers are very low. All Hands estimates Looking at largely empty streets, debris river banks higher and futile attempts its daily cost to maintain a volunteer at piles, and the amount of destruction, to erect sandbag walls around their $15. With the average volunteer con- the group was in agreement that Minot homes. With waterlines visible as high tributing $100-$200 in labor per day, was the most under-reported American as 10 feet above ground level on some the format becomes a force multiplier tragedy of the year. homes, the damage was extreme. and an incredible return that All Hands Many homeowners started to gut believes exceeds 800% return on invest- With close to 4,000 homes flooded their homes themselves, but became ment. The personal volunteer costs are and severely damaged (This community overwhelmed. The people in this area essentially getting there. was one of the areas hardest hit by are both proud and resourceful – but the flooding of the Souris River in late they clearly need help. Coming home tired, muscles sore, both June, when 10,000 residents of Minot mentally rewarded and exhausted, with were forced to flee from the worst flood Volunteers working with All Hands a re-energized faith in the human spirit, seen in over 130 years. The prolonged (hands.org), worked until 4:30 or 5 the team agreed that the trip was well flooding has displaced a quarter of the p.m. Each night, the organization worth it.

10 11 Haiti One Year Later

by Douglas Pierson, DVM, assistant professor, Agriculture and Veterinary Technology Department

wenty-three Alfred State College We were heartened this year to see veterinary technology disciplines. Tstudents sacrificed the first several continuing progress and improvements Although the main purpose of the work weeks of their summer to travel to Haiti in Haiti. Christianville continues to offer in Haiti continues to be construction, the and offer assistance to that struggling medical services in temporary quarters nursing and ag/vet tech students were country. These students returned to housed in some school buildings that able to do some work in their areas of Christianville, the same locale that survived the earthquake. However, specialization. Nursing students helped Alfred State students had visited the the new medical complex is beginning Dr. Jim and Sandy Wilkins, expatriate year before. Christianville is located to take shape - looking more like directors of the medical mission at only several miles from the epicenter buildings than piles of block and rebar. Christianville, provide care to the many of the January 2010 earthquake Some new school buildings have been Haitians that depend on the medical that devastated Haiti. About 75% of erected on the Christianville site and services at Christianville. They were the buildings in this area were either life is slowly returning to normal for the able to apply what they have learned at damaged beyond repair or collapsed Haitian people. Alfred State in a very hands-on fashion completely. Alfred State has partnered in Haiti and they benefited from seeing with Christianville to help rebuild the Alfred State work teams were again some conditions that are unique to much-needed medical facilities that were composed of students from the building both an impoverished population and a destroyed by the 2010 earthquake. trades, nursing, and agriculture and population that lives in a tropical climate.

12 “Our trip to Haiti was life-changing. Working alongside the Haitians to help rebuild their country allowed us to see how much you can change someone’s life by even the small things.” Chanel Wright, executive assistant to the president, ASC.

Ag/vet tech students also utilized their hunted tarantulas after dark, and skills to provide care for livestock in the swam in the warm Caribbean Sea. Christianville area. Veterinary services They learned words and phrases are not very accessible to Haitian in Haitian Creole, communicated farmers, so the skills of these students without language when necessary, were much appreciated. laughed and played with the Haitian children, and baked under Building trades students became the sun with the Haitian work teachers as they molded their crew. They learned that they classmates from other disciplines into could stretch their comfort zone efficient block-laying teams. We worked and experience things that will side-by-side with a Haitian crew of about enrich their lives. Above all, they 20 workers and block walls rose skyward put feet to the Alfred State motto during our weeks in Haiti. We were also “hit the ground running” as they able to interact with the United Nations spent themselves helping the troops in Haiti, and our work became Haitian people. a very multicultural affair. The UN has provided a lot of heavy equipment for the rebuilding effort in Haiti, and during our time at Christianville, the UN was excavating and moving dirt at our building site. Our students rubbed shoulders with Korean and Sri Lankan soldiers who were working alongside us at the site.

The highlight of the experience in Haiti was again the opportunity the Alfred State students had to immerse themselves in Haitian culture. Our students did things that they may never do again. They chewed sugar out of raw sugar cane, drank milk from coconuts that hung from the tree minutes before,

12 13 ASC students have the skills, tools, and compassion to Help Schoharie espite general grumblings of how compassion, skill, and dedication, as Dtoday’s youth spend too much time well as their willingness to take on texting or living in cyberspace, students challenges, this trip would not have enrolled in Alfred State College’s heavy been as successful as it was.” equipment operations program would certainly silence those grumblers. In addition to their equipment needs, team members also needed On a recent Wednesday morning, food and shelter for their weekend. Professor Mark Payne asked his students Other members of the Alfred State if any of them would be interested in a community stepped up to the plate trip to the Schoharie area to assist in to help out. Students in the Culinary flood relief efforts there. At the time, the Arts Department filled two coolers plans were tentative, and students would and several boxes with provisions for have to be prepared to leave early (4 the crew, and Dr. Kathleen Sellers, When they arrived at their destination, a.m.) Saturday morning and work long a recent addition to the ASC faculty, they were given a map and a list of tasks hours Saturday and Sunday. provided a spaghetti dinner for all team that needed to be completed. members, a room for the sole female Once the logistics were worked out with student on the trip, and arrangements Of the students who made the trip, three disaster relief officials, Payne and his with SUNY Cobleskill to house the males of the seniors, TC Carroll, Bath; Angelia student volunteers got to work on their in the group. Cavanaugh, Whitesville; and Jonathan own logistics. Wist, Deposit, were on hand recently to The Alfred State team loaded an talk about their experience. “Without the help of Roy Gay, (Wellsville), excavator, chipper, and Gay’s track a local businessman who often lends loader onto Gay’s trailer (he also “The devastation was unbelievable,” us equipment and know-how, we donated the fuel for the trip), loaded up noted Carroll, as he recalled what he wouldn’t have been able to transport an ASC trailer, hooked it to a van, and saw when the group arrived in Schoharie. the necessary equipment to the site,” away they went. “Where there were houses, there was says Payne. “And without our students’ nothing,” he said with awe in his voice. “The people told us they were given only minutes to grab what they could and evacuate. They lost everything. I was brought to tears by the depth of their gratitude at our being there.”

Wist, who had seen flooding before in his home town, expressed the views of the group when he said, “We heard they were in rough shape and how much they needed the help. How could we not go?”

“You just can’t imagine the devastation,” said Payne. “You hear news reports that the unrelenting rain had caused the Schoharie River to overflow its retaining walls, sending water coursing down city streets, destroying buildings, and even lifting a huge barn from its original site and dropping it down several hundred

14 yards away. We’d heard that the water level was at one time higher than 25 feet! “But until you see it first-hand, and witness the damage and the people’s devastation, first, you feel grateful for being spared, and then you roll up your sleeves and get to work helping the folks who weren’t so lucky.”

Most of the work performed by the Alfred State group included cleaning up the debris—that is the detritus which was once the homes and businesses of a small community, and carting it to a central dumping spot.

“Because we had the equipment and the certified drivers, we were allowed to use some of the town’s (Schoharie) trucks as the regular crews were at their own homes cleaning up,” notes Payne. “And thanks to Jonathan’s family’s business, Wist Lumber, Deposit, which lent us a dump truck, and another local student (Paul Briggs, Schoharie) for the use of a pickup and dump trailer, we were able to keep working while loads of debris were sent to the central dump site.” the experience possible: Dr. Steven When it was time to return to Alfred Tyrell, vice president for student affairs, Cavanaugh, the only female crew State, team members decided to give who made the contact with the relief member, says that “if we hadn’t had the remainder of the food they brought workers; Sellers, who arranged dinner to come back to school, we’d have all with them to some of the families they and housing for them; Gay, who lent his stayed to keep helping. We did a lot, but had met. In fact, there was so much left, equipment, time, energy, and talent to there was so much more that needs to that three families benefited from their the project; Culinary Arts who provided be done.” largesse. good eats; and Professor Payne, who led the charge. “One fellow, who had been eating MRE’s (meals ready to eat) for weeks, had tears Payne is unstinting in his praise of his in his eyes when he saw the sandwich students: “Not only did they do yeomen’s meat and other fresh food we dropped work, not only did they ably use their off,” noted Gay. skills, not only did they work well with people outside our group, but the depth When asked how they felt about the of their compassion and their ability in experience, the students were of one their trade did the college proud.” mind when they said they were just a group of average folks helping out other Other students who participated average folks. in this relief effort, but were not available for the interview, included “We are happy that we have the skills Jon Cook, Campbell; Cody Madigan, and the tools to help out,” said Carroll. Bath; Adam Kline, Johnstown; Mike “And when you have those advantages, Kashdin, West Seneca; Chris Smith, you should do what you can for others.” Rochester; Joseph Capuano, Knox; Josh Wilcox, Middleburgh; and Paul Briggs, Schoharie. Additionally, the students wanted to thank the folks at Alfred State who made

14 15 Homecoming Family Weekend Hundreds of visitors came GoldRush to campus for ASC’s fourth annual Homecoming/Family 2 11 Weekend in September. Guests enjoyed athletic competitions, a tour of the Village, family entertainment, and a carnival. A tailgate party and basket raffle led up to the big football game in Pioneer Stadium, where the ASC Pioneers defeated Stevens Tech 49-27. Pioneer Pride prevailed throughout the weekend. &

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ASC Participates at AASHE Conference 99 Percent Employment/ I’Institut d’Administration des Alfred State served as a Campus Host Sponsor Transfer Record for the AASHE 2011 Conference and EXPO “Cre- Entreprises de Lille Signs MOU with ASC ating Sustainable Campuses and Communities,” in Pittsburgh in October. This annual three-day Alfred State’s 2010 Dr. Dominique Besson, director of the BBA (bachelor conference, presented by the Association for the graduates garnered in business administration) program at l’Institut Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Educa- an employment/ d’Administration des Entreprises de Lille (IAE Lille) tion (AASHE), is the largest North American con- transfer record of France, traveled to Alfred State to sign a five-year ference focused on sustainability in higher educa- 99 percent. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ASC to tion, typically drawing over 2,500 participants to employment and offer joint study abroad programs in business. IAE Pittsburgh, from more than 10 countries. transfer figures are Lille and Alfred State, in recognition of their common based on an annual interests in developing bilateral relations and in survey sent to all Alfred State showcased the all-electric vehicle agreement that cooperation between institutes of ASC graduates; higher learning contributes to cultural enrichment, created by a class of seventh semester seniors 2010’s questionnaire in the mechanical engineering technology scientific progress, and the consolidation of netted a 73 percent friendship between countries, have agreed to program in fall 2010. In addition to being on response rate from display throughout the conference, there was a establish a student exchange program between their surveyed graduates. respective BBA programs. presentation by members of the class discussing Sixty-two percent the project and how other schools can implement of the graduates Pictured above seated at the table, l-r: Besson; a similar program of project-based learning. who responded are Dr. John M. Anderson, president, Alfred State College employed, while and co-signer, with Besson of the MOU; and Dr. Stephen Alfred State’s faculty, staff, and students presenting 37 percent opted Havlovic, ASC vice president for Academic Affairs. Standing at the conference included: to continue their behind, l-r: Diane Tuzzolino, ASC associate professor, • Craig Clark, dean, School of Applied Technology education. One Business Department; Kathy Markel, ASC associate • Timothy Cochran, associate professor, Mechanical percent remains director, Admissions; Jason White, ASC staff associate, & Electrical Engineering Technology available for Student Records and Financial Services; Marcus Tagliaferri, • Matthew Dunn, student, Mechanical & Electrical employment. Among Rome, technology management; Francine Staba, ASC Engineering Technology those employed, 94 associate professor and chair, Business Department; • Jeffrey Johnston, assistant professor, Computer percent are working Jacob Willson, Lee Center, technology management; and Imaging & Architectural Engineering Technology in jobs related to Tricia Herritt, interim coordinator of International Student Programs. Tagliaferri and Willson have both expressed a • Dr. Matthew Lawrence, assistant professor, their college field of desire to participate in the new program. Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Technology study. • Dianne Tuzzolino, associate professor, Business Department • Witcliffe Williams, student, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Technology This Way to Over 2060 Employers If you are an Alfred State grad currently looking for work or maybe an Additional campus hosts included Carnegie employer who is in need of talented employees/interns, Career Development Mellon University, Chatham University, Cornell has the answer for you – JobLink! JobLink is our job posting system that University, Duquesne University, Frostburg State connects employers with job seekers. In fact, we are proud to announce University, Pennsylvania State University, Point that our database of employers on JobLink has now officially surpassed Park University, Portland State University, Slippery 2,060! JobLink is available to all alums seeking employment and to all Rock University, University of Pittsburgh, and employers who want to post jobs/internships (and it is all FREE). West Virginia University. To find JobLink please go to www.alfredstate.edu → Career Development → JobLink. Be sure to enter through the correct link. Enter as an employer if you would like to post a job or internship. Enter as a student/alum if you are seeking employment. Simply create your account the first time. On return visits you will just login.

Career Development also has many other online resources that can be very valuable in networking and job searching. These online resources include a group on LinkedIn (Alfred State College – Career Development), a Facebook page (Career Development - Alfred State College), and a Twitter page (ASCCareerOffice) with over 1,500 followers.

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Wetland ASC Receives Treatment National System Recognition Transferred to for Community Ed Foundation Service

Atlantic Richfield (a BP-affiliated company) transferred the wetland treatment system site, which sits on the site of the former Sinclair refinery, to the Educational Foundation, Inc. After a major blaze The Corporation which closed the for National and refinery in 1958, AR Community Service dismantled the refinery honored Alfred State site, donated much as a leader among of the property to institutions of higher Alfred State to build Dining Services Team Wins Gold Award from NACUFS education for its its Wellsville campus, support of volunteering, and performed various service-learning, and cleanup activities. This A Mediterranean cruise in March is a treat; this year at Alfred State, it civic engagement. most recent remedy was an award-winning event as well. The Dining Services team at Alfred Alfred State was involved construction State College won a Gold Award from the National Association of College admitted to the 2010 of a wetland and University Food Services (NACUFS) for a special event it hosted at the President’s Higher treatment system, college. The Dining Services team is part of Auxiliary Campus Enterprises Education Community which is designed to and Services, Inc. (ACES), the not-for-profit corporation that provides Service Honor Roll for remove any residual dining services on campus. The cruise theme for the event was designed to engaging its students, contaminants from highlight the college’s study abroad program at Sant’Anna Institute (formerly faculty, and staff in the groundwater Sorrento Lingue Institute) in Sorrento, Italy. The Terrace was transformed into meaningful service that that passes beneath a cruise ship with a gangway, outdoor café seating (complete with a hand- achieves measurable the site and prevent made lemon tree), a vineyard, and floor-to-ceiling painted windows depicting results in the contamination from a shoreline and ocean views. community. The CNCS, migrating to the which has administered Genesee River. the Honor Roll since 2006, admitted a ASC Is Now total of 641 colleges and universities Smoke Free for their impact on issues from literacy Smoking is prohibited and neighborhood on campus except in revitalization to outside designated supporting at-risk smoking areas. View youth. Of that total, the Alfred and Wellsville 511 were named campus maps online to the Honor Roll, for designated areas. 114 received the This policy reduces recognition of Honor involuntary exposure Roll with distinction, Pictured here l-r: Mike Murray, ’78, assistant director, Food Court of second-hand smoke 11 were identified Operations; Bron Norasethaporn, catering manager; Christine Loper, and facilitates a as finalists, and assistant director, Dining for Cash Operations; Karen Canne, director, healthier environment six received the Dining Services; Cindy Harrison, kitchen manager; and Denise Brownell, for all. Presidential Award. assistant director, Resident Dining Services.

18 19 School of Applied Technology School of Management & Engineering Technology

ASC Wins “Customer’s Choice Award” for Best-designed BUV

Five baccalaureate-level mechanical engineering seniors at Alfred State, under the guidance of project advisers, SUNY (State University of New York) Distinguished Service Professor Dr. Edward Tezak, and Ray Gleason, instructional support technician, competed in the 11th annual BUV (basic utility vehicle) competition recently in Indianapolis. A BUV is, according to the Institute for Affordable Transportation (IAT) which sponsors the competition, a vehicle to help meet peoples’ everyday needs in developing countries. Besides rural transportation, BUVs also represent a mobile power source for further development. Thanks to a thrown bolt on the shive, the part of the CVT that controls the drive belt, during the Enduro Run the last event, the team was forced to make repairs on the course. Without the correct length bolt to replace it, team member Kevin Sullivan was able to jury rig one with electrical tape that allowed the vehicle to finish the event. However, Clean Energy Summer Teacher Workshop despite these difficulties, JAARS (formerly the Jungle Aviation and Radio Service), a group that provides technical support such as aviation, Alfred State’s Center for Renewable Energy held its first Clean Energy information technology, and media for missionary Summer Teacher Workshop, in July, on its School of Applied Technology programs, awarded Alfred State the “Customer’s campus in Wellsville. The two-day hands-on workshop for technology Choice Award” for the best-designed vehicle. It teachers from across New York State covered instruction on installation and was presented by Mike Smith, the organization’s maintenance of solar and wind energy systems. The laboratory’s goal is to automotive supervisor/trainer. use the latest new building systems and renewable systems achieving a zero energy home that can be used in advanced course work for ASC students. Its energy use will be monitored over time and it will also be used for community awareness programs, such as this two-day workshop. The real goal of this hands-on training workshop was to strengthen and enhance the current skill sets of these educators to strengthen the training they offer to their students. Alfred State College is committed to working with institutions and educators, as well as industry partners, to develop and strengthen New York State’s workforce.

Pictured above, l-r, are: Associate Professor Jeffrey Stevens, ASC’s workshop Pictured here, l-r, the Alfred State College BUV team: instructor and workshop participants Ed Moloney, Three Village Central School; Craig Steve Manzoni, Rochester; Pat Mohr, Limestone; Kevin Clark, dean, School of Applied Technology; Keith Perry, Syosset WM School; Rich Sullivan (team leader), Gasport; Brad McClean, Lake Monroe, Genesee Valley BOCES/Batavia; Jason Millington, Rochester City Schools; View; and Mike Marsigliano, Staten Island. and Joseph Castelli, Levittown School.

Hands-on Internships with LeChase Students Help Rebuild Two Cities Ravaged by Construction Hurricane Katrina Two construction management engineering technology students, Zachary Towner and For the second consecutive year, senior carpentry students enrolled in the Andrew Meeder have been chosen by LeChase College’s Building Trades programs embarked on a “Semester in the South” Construction, LLC, Rochester, to work with the where they will use the skills they acquired during their first year of study to company on construction management for help rebuild New Orleans, LA, and Bay St. Louis, MS. Under the direction the campus student leadership center which of Assistant Professor Norm Ellis, and in conjunction with the Episcopal is currently under construction. The top 11 Diocese in the 7th Ward, New Orleans, and Habitat for Humanity in Bay St. candidates of 26 resume submissions were Louis, 13 students are spending 15 weeks building houses for those who chosen for formal interviews. Towner and Meeder, continue to be displaced by the storm. both sophomores, began work at semester’s end.

20 School of Arts & Sciences

HIT Program Granted Continuing Accreditation by CAHIM The health information technology program has been granted continuing accreditation by CAHIM (Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education). The institution received notification for its health information technology program for 2009-10 APAR. (The 2009-10 APAR was submitted in March 2011, Dignitaries Gather to Break Ground for Alfred State’s Center for Organic and allowing lag time for Sustainable Agriculture graduates to take the national credentialing The excitement was palpable as faculty, staff, administrators, friends, and special guests gathered on RHIT exam after a perfect summer day to break ground for Alfred State’s Center for Organic and Sustainable Agriculture graduation). (COSA). The project, which was made possible, in part, thanks to a $4.9 million state grant obtained by NYS Sen. Cathy Young, R-Olean, will house not only ASC’s conventional dairy herd, but also an Alfred State organic dairy herd so students can learn both protocols. The Center will include a 60-stall dairy barn, offers an online new heifer and dry cow housing (conventional and organic), a new calf-raising barn, and upgrades to associate’s degree existing farm structures. Although dairy farming is one of COSA’s prominent programs, it is not the only in health information one. Thanks to some Genesee Valley farmland in Groveland, faculty and students will have access to technology/ some of the region’s most productive cropland for hands-on learning about sustainable production medical records. of grain crops, vegetable crops, and forage crops. Alfred State also plans to take a leadership role Graduates are in the integration of alternative energy technology, not only on the farm, but throughout campus. Dr. eligible to take the Terry Tucker, dean, School of Arts and Sciences, noted that “We are preparing our students for a very national certification different future. The need for good stewardship of land, water, and soil, as well as savvy consumers examination to who will want to know how and where their food products are produced will require agriculturists to become a Registered be familiar and comfortable with the new technologies.” Additionally, Tucker noted, “The projected Health Information growth in population [9 billion people by 2050] will increase the demand for food by nearly 70%. It Technician. Since will be imperative for farmers to know how to use the same amount of land, probably less water, and 1968, when the possibly a less favorable climate for food production to meet the increased demand. And that’s what program was COSA is all about: we’re creating a new generation of problem solvers and innovative entrepreneurs created, Alfred State whose influence will reach beyond Western New York.” Principals involved in the project include HIT graduates have AES Agricultural Engineering Services, LLS, Auburn, NY; Baker Construction, Alfred; and Spoleto traditionally achieved Construction, Rochester. a passing rate above the national average. Pictured above, l-r: Dave Spoleto, president, Spoleto Construction; Patricia K. Fogarty, chair, Alfred State College Graduates are also Council; Tucker; Dr. John M. Anderson, president, ASC; Sen. Young; Eunice A. Lewin, trustee, State University of eligible to take the New York; and Matthew A. Morgan, deputy commissioner, NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets. Certified Coding Specialist (CCA, CCS and CCS-P) and Certified Professional Coder (CPC, CPC-A, CPC-H-A, CPC-H, and CPC-P) exams.

20 21 Development News

Support ASC and Major Gift Received for Heavy Save Tax Dollars Equipment Operations Program

The U.S. Congress A gift of $50,000 from Laverne (’56) and Mary reinstated the A Special Thank You to the Following Lou Billings of Boynton Beach, FL, is going to Individual Retirement AthleticThank Banner Sponsors You support equipment purchases for the heavy Account (IRA) equipment operations program. charitable rollover • ACES • Main Tire Exchange, as part of its Tax “This is a critical gift during a critical growth period • Allegany Council Inc. Relief, Unemployment for this popular program,” said President John on Alcoholism and • Maple City Savings Insurance Anderson. “Heavy equipment operators acquire Substance Abuse Bank Reauthorization and their skills through the hands-on instruction Job Creation Act of • Alstom • Nunda Auto Parts for which Alfred State is famous. Gifts like this 2010. • Cameron • Pet Saver Superstore allow us to purchase large pieces of machinery Manufacturing & – Russell, ’81, & that give the students an excellent education That means if you are Design Brenda, ’81, Herman and prepare them for the large infrastructure age 70½ or older and • Casey’s Truck • Sage Rutty and construction projects that will build the future of have an IRA account, Salvage World, Inc. Company, Inc. New York State. Mr. Billings is committed to the you can roll over up • Community Bank NA, • Upstate Niagara long-term growth of this program.” to $100,000 a year Alfred Cooperative, Inc. from an IRA directly to • Corning, Inc. • Wilder and Linneball, The heavy equipment operations program a tax-exempt charity, • Covered Wagon Tours LLP - J. Joseph provides instruction in the skills required by heavy such as Alfred State • Dresser-Rand Wilder, ‘77 equipment operators for the light construction and College, free of federal • Gentleman Jim’s heavy highway industries. Instruction is provided income tax. The IRA • Greater Allegany in theory and hands-on for heavy equipment charitable rollover was County Chamber of operations, as well as instruction on grades, soils, reinstated through Commerce blueprint reading, safety, and project supervision. Dec. 31, 2011. • Hornell Partners for Growth (HPG) This is just one of several major gifts the Billings You can also include • International family has made to the College. In 1999, Laverne Alfred State College Brotherhood of and Mary Lou Billings donated $126,882.25 in your estate plans. Electrical Workers and Donald and JoAnn (Billings) Axtell A bequest to Alfred #139 donated $376,658.71, for a combined gift of State College costs • John W. Danforth, $503,540.96 to create a scholarship endowment nothing during your Co. in memory of their parents, Evelyn and Rumsey lifetime; it can lower • Jones Memorial Billings. The purpose of Evelyn C. and Rumsey estate taxes, and a Hospital C. Billings Memorial Endowed Scholarship is bequest can easily be • Laborers Local Union to recruit students from Steuben and Otsego revised or revoked if #621 counties into any one of Alfred State College’s plans or circumstances programs. Students must have a minimum 75 change. Moreover, high school average. the flexible nature of bequests allows you to “The Billings are friends who provide truly leave an exact amount transformational gifts to the College,” said or percentage of your Anderson. “Their student-focused gifts perfectly estate, which can reflect our philosophy here at Alfred State, be used to support a and our students are fortunate to have such specific program at advocates.” Alfred State, if you choose. We reprint this article which appeared in the last issue of Transitions because information regarding the Axtell For more information, portion of the gift was unintentionally omitted; we contact Danielle White, apologize for the error. director of annual giving, at (607) 587- 3931 or whitedm@ alfredstate.edu.

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Creating a lasting We Need Your Help to Reach Our Goal! egacyat Alfred State College Your gift will help Alfred State College Buy a Brick today and in the future! Use this tear-off and mail back to: Office of Institutional Advancement L10 Upper College Dr., Alfred, NY 14802 Leave Designate your gift to the area that is most important to you. If no choice is made, your gift will a Legacy be directed to Advancing Alfred State College. ASC has established an Alumni Plaza, I am enclosing a gift of $ beginning at the base Please direct my gift as follows: of the Bell Tower, that pays tribute to the q Unrestricted (For ASC’s greatest needs.) College’s friends and alumni while serving q Anthony Cappadonia Auditorium Renovation as a reminder of the accomplishments of q Wellsville Workforce Development Center the many generations of the Alfred State q Culinary Arts Center College family. q Scholarships You may engrave the q Other name of an alum, a lfred State is very favorite faculty or staff pleased to report that For assistance, contact the Office of Institutional member, a classmate, A $45,000 has been raised to date toward the Advancement at (607) 587-3930. a family member, a $100,000 goal for the Anthony Cappadonia favorite class, or a auditorium renovation. We are also excited to I am q an alumnus q parent q friend q faculty/staff friend of Alfred State, let you know that the College has increased in a brick that will be the amount of funding available for the Name included in the paving renovation from $250,000 to $400,000 to of the Alumni Plaza. expand the scope of enhancements that will Address transform the auditorium. Therefore, there will • Alumni Plaza brick be $500,000 in renovations completed to the dedication with three auditorium. This renovation and naming is a City lines of text: $75 wonderful tribute to Cappy’s lasting legacy on • Alumni Plaza brick campus as well as in the community. State Zip dedication with two lines of text: $65 Your support is very important to this project Email • Alumni Plaza brick and will ensure that all of the renovations dedication with one will be complete. All gift levels are greatly line of text: $50 appreciated and have a tremendous impact. Check q Enclosed (payable to ASC Development Fund) Your name will be engraved on a permanent Charge q Visa q MasterCard q Am.Ex. q Discover To order your brick, go to plaque which will be mounted in the auditorium www.alfredstate.edu or at the dedication during the Alumni Choir Card Number call (607) 587-3931. Concert on April 29, 2012. We hope that you will be able to attend and enjoy the Exp. Date celebration.

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Want to Do Something to Distinguished Alumni Award Do You Want to Become an Help Alfred? Call for Nominations 2012 Alumni Council Alumni often say they want to do something to Member? help Alfred State, but aren’t sure how they can The Distinguished Alumni Award was created make a meaningful contribution, especially if they to recognize an alumnus/alumna whose achievements and recognition have reflected The Alfred State live far away from campus. Well, there are many College Alumni ways you can help! Some of these ideas require honor on his/her alma mater, chosen field, community, or region. Council is always very little time or effort, but can bring tremendous seeking interested benefit to our alma mater. You can make a alumni. The Council difference right now! Following are just a few of The criteria for the Distinguished Alumni Award meets three times the ways you can assist the College: are: per year on the • Host an accepted-student reception in your • The recipient must be an alumnus/alumna of campus, and is home for area students Alfred State College, and must have made engaged and works • Attend a college/career night program with a significant contributions in his/her chosen field. for the current needs representative from the Admissions Office • The recipient has exhibited current or past and mission of the • Share your story service to the Alfred State community. College. • Have a current student shadow you at work • The recipient has exhibited current or past • Provide an internship opportunity service to his/her community or region. Your participation • Join the Alumni Council • The recipient has demonstrated an as an alumnus understanding of the importance of maintaining • Make a donation – a donation at a level encourages Alfred current knowledge in his/her field, and has used that is comfortable for you is always greatly State students and that knowledge or skill to contribute to his/her appreciated. other alumni to community or civic organizations. strengthen ties with Please take a moment to review the following link the College, to create to see some additional ways you can help Alfred Nominations, including a one- to two-page new friendships State: www.alfredstate.edu/alumni-services/ summary of nominee, are accepted from alumni, and networking opportunities-for-involvement. faculty, and friends of Alfred State College. The opportunities, and to deadline for the 2012 nominations is Dec. serve the students Please share your news, a photo of new baby, 31, 2011. The vice president for institutional of today and future a recent marriage, a promotion, etc. You may advancement together with the director of alumni generations. If you forward information to [email protected]. relations will make a final recommendation to the are interested in president of Alfred State for his acceptance. being a member of Support Alfred State - online giving form: the Alumni Council, or if you wish to www.alfredstate.edu/give For additional information, please contact the Alumni Relations Office at (607) 587-3931. forward another alum’s name for nomination, please Elizabeth “Ysmay” Gray, Austin, TX, is the CEO of send information to MetroSeeker.com (an online residential guidebook geared alumni@alfredstate. toward college students). edu. Be a part of it all, give back, and A local with family members on the faculty, it made sense serve on the Alfred for Ysmay to attend Alfred State. She is the daughter of State College Alumni Ken Gray, who worked for the engineering school until his Council! retirement in 2010, and the granddaughter of Jim and Anne Wenslow, who taught math and business, respectively. Homeschooled, Ysmay was a liberal arts major in spring 1999. Thank you to all alumni who participated in the contest by forwarding your updated contact information and e-mail address for the opportunity to In 2004, Ysmay moved to New Mexico where she became the overnight Web win an Alfred State sweatshirt or travel mug, or the editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper. Returning to Alfred in 2006, grand prize drawing to win a weekend at the Saxon Ysmay re-enrolled, studying life sciences. She became involved with the Inn during Homecoming/Family Weekend 2011. Alfred State Rescue Squad, Ergo, and the Biology and Environmental Clubs. And the winners are: In 2008, Ysmay left Happy Valley for the Silicon Valley; she was hired as the April – Roy Hughes, ’61 marketing director for a social networking start-up in Los Gatos. In 2010 she May – Janine Kemp, ’06 started MetroSeeker.com. June – Edgar Ueno, ’09 July – Alex Spicola, ’09 When asked how she became a corporate executive, Ysmay says. “It took a August – Steven Lough, ’76 lot of hard work and the education I got at Alfred - both academic and social.” Grand prize – Craig & Donna Bisbing, ’66

24 Alumni News Alumni Events

Class of 1961 Honored at Alumni Luncheon during Jay Wilder, ’77, and Michael Smith, ’77, catching up at the Homecoming/Family Weekend Alumni Family Picnic at Letchworth State Park.

Front row, l-r: Peter Logel, E. Lee Remley, Fred David Post, Alumni Council Chair, Colleen Argentieri, ’85, McNeil, Ronald Moore ’83/’85, with his mother at director of Alumni Relations and Second row, l-r: Richard Graves, Joseph Rieger, Tracy Castaways Riverside Restaurant Ernest Bower, ’53, during the Buffalo (Hargrave) Logel, Charles Button, and Stanley Durham. during the Syracuse Alumni reception. Alumni Brunch at Templeton Landing.

Peter Logel: “Tracy & I really enjoyed the luncheon and the program on Saturday. The food was great and we liked the gifts commemorating our 50th anniversary of graduating from Alfred; it really hasn’t been that long has it?”

Ron Moore: “Thank you for all your hard work in bringing the 2011 alumni luncheon and other Alumni enjoyed the Grand Slam BBQ Buffet before watching the Rochester events together. Thank you and your staff for a Red Wings vs. Columbus Clippers in Frontier Field’s Hot Corner in August. job well done.”

Alumni gathered on the Coca-Cola Field Party Deck to watch the Buffalo Bisons take on the Durham Bulls in August.

24 25 Achievers

Dr. Rex Peter von Chanel Jeffrey Michelle Olson, Stackelberg, Wright has Stevens, Green, SUNY director, lecturer, been named assistant Distinguished Counseling School of executive professor, and Teaching Pro- Services, Management assistant to Sean Kelley, fessor, Physi- served as and the president. adjunct cal and Health Sciences a discussant at the Engineering Technology, Wright joined Alfred State instructor, Department; and Doug- symposium, “Psychology invited by the in 2008 as a residence Electrical las Pierson, as a STEM Discipline and European Futurists hall director and holds Trades DVM, assis- as Logos of the Soul: Conference, presented a bachelor’s degree Department, tant professor, The Critical Necessity to and participated in a from Nazareth College, recently Agriculture of the Humanities conference in Lucerne, Rochester. earned the industry’s and Veterinary for Psychological Switzerland, in May. This Hollie Hall, leading recognition of Technology Science,” at the invitation was a result of has been expertise as a certified Department, were hon- American Psychological groundbreaking work that named interim installer of solar electric ored with the President’s Association Conference he’s done on forecasting senior director systems from the “Innovation Award” to in Washington, DC, in abrupt technological, of Health North American Board acknowledge innovative August. social, economic, and Wellness of Certified Energy thinking and problem and political changes, Dr. Matthew Services. She holds an Practitioners (NABCEP). solving. Honored for their which was the focus Lawrence, MS from Alfred University Designation as a “creative approaches to of the conference. Von assistant and a BS from SUNY NABCEP-certified solar their respective disci- Stackelberg’s work on the professor, Brockport. PV installer is widely plines,” according to Mechanical use of timelines and other recognized to be the most President Anderson. Dr. Ron A. and Electrical methods for predicting important and meaningful Rhoades, Leon Engineering Technology, future trends and events certification of its kind CFP, assistant Buckwalter, and two co-authors has been recognized as in the renewable energy professor in assistant were the recipients of leading edge by futurists industry. the Business professor, a Superior Paper Award and those involved Department, Paul D. Building 2011 from the American in strategic issues and curriculum Posener, Trades, Society of Agricultural management. coordinator of its financial director of and John & Biological Engineers Joseph planning program, Residential Buckwalter, (ASABE). The paper, Damrath, presented at the Certified Life, presented SUNY “Producing Solid Fuel associate Financial Planner “Alfred State Distinguished from Non-Recyclable professor, Board of Standards, College’s first LLC—A Teaching Agricultural Plastics,” Business Inc.’s registered Success Story,” at the Professor, Physical and was submitted to a Department, programs conference in 2011 ACUHO-I Living Health Sciences, traveled peer-reviewed journal and April Washington, DC. Rhoades Learning Programs to Poland and Russia, administered by the Lawrence, respectively, to use their is the recipient of The Conference in Orlando ASABE. secretary, skills in the service of Tamar Frankel Fiduciary of in October. Posener’s Office of the others. Leon worked with Dr. John the Year Award for 2011, topic, a review of Alfred Vice President an international team of Williams has from The Committee for State’s first venture for Administration students and profession- been named the Fiduciary Standard. into a “living-learning” and Enrollment, were als to build a replica of dean of the He was also named community lifestyle for honored with the SUNY the Gwozdziec Syna- School of as one of the Top 25 select students, reviewed Chancellor’s Award for gogue timber frame roof Management Most Influential persons the 2010-11 academic Excellence this spring. structure and the vaulted and Engineering associated with the year and how this LLC ceiling for permanent Technology (SMET). Damrath won the investment advisory program was developed exhibition at the Museum Chancellor’s Award for profession in 2011 and shaped, the physical Dr. Daryl of the History of Polish Excellence in Teaching by Investment Advisor changes executed by Arroyo has Jews in Poland as the first which has as its primary magazine. Hank Colker of WTW been named criterion mastery of Architects to renovate a major element of the core the new teaching techniques and Dr. Richard residence hall to fit the exhibition for the new director of superb skill in teaching. Kellogg, program, and how this Museum of the History of Athletics, Lawrence won the professor program reached its initial Polish Jews. John, who Physical Education, Chancellor’s Award for emeritus of retention goals within the was awarded the Fulbright Recreation and Excellence in Classified psychology, first year. Community College Fac- Intramurals. Arroyo comes is the author ulty Award for teaching in Service which was Jeffrey to Alfred State after of an article appearing Russia, will teach for the established to give Johnston, working at Springfield in Paperback Parade, fall semester at Astrakhan SUNY-wide recognition for assistant College (MA) for the past a quarterly journal State Technical Univer- superior performance and professor, 21 years. for readers and book sity (ASTU) in Astrakhan, extraordinary achievement Computer collectors published by Russia. ASTU has about by employees in the Imaging and Gryphon Books. The 7,000 students in a vari- Classified Service. Architectural Engineering article is titled “Philip ety of technical programs Technology; and Wylie: Saving the Planet at the bachelor’s and through Science Fiction.” master’s level.

26 Sports News

1971-74 Swimming & Five Inducted The Hall of Fame Class of 2011 in attendance, Diving Teams into Athletic Hall of Fame l-r: Joe Greany, Ashley Vogl, Matt Covert. Honored During Homecoming 2011, five Alfred State • scored 30 goals and passed out 44 assists in During Homecoming alumni were inducted into the Athletic his freshman year 2011, the Athletic Department Hall of Fame. Swimmer John Meade, • 105 points on 38 goals and 67 assists his Department also track & field athlete Damian Rodriguez, lacrosse sophomore year as he led the Pioneers to honored the 1971 player Matthew Covert, baseball player Joe their first national ranking and an 11-2 mark through 1974 men’s Greany, and swimmer Ashley Vogl joined the 56 • is the only person in ASC lacrosse history with swimming & diving inducted athletes. more than 100 points in a season teams. During that • is tops in career points with 179 span the Pioneers Meade, a co-captain, was the cornerstone of the • his 111 assists are tops all-time swam to four swim team as the program started a run of four • his 68 goals are 5th best straight national straight NJCAA National Championships. He had: championships. In • six individual national championship titles the history of athletics Greany, a constant starter for two championship • was part of four national championship relays teams at ASC, started in every game of his at Alfred State, • ASC Freshman Athlete of the Year-1971 Pioneer athletic career as the Pioneers accumulated an 82-34 • ASC Senior Athlete of the Year-1972 teams have won a record. He was a leader on the 2001-02 WNYAC total of 12 national • holds: eight school records, six pool records, Championship team and the 2002-03 Region III championships. and seven NJCAA records and WNYAC Championship team. His record: This is the third team • because of his strong performance at the • hit .332 as a freshman brought back to 1972 NJCAA National Championships, he was • hit .423 as a sophomore campus and honored named the most outstanding junior college • hit .374 career (9th all-time) by the Athletic swimmer • 377 at bats (8th all-time) Department. The • was the first athlete in NJCAA swimming • 125 runs (7th all-time) 1971-74 swimming & history to swim to 10 National Championships • 141 hits (8th all-time) diving teams join the • 12 triples (4th all-time) 1984 cross country Rodriguez was one of the top pole vaulters in • 39 stolen bases (career-7th all-time) ASC track & field history. He was: team and the 1959 • all-time leader in assists (154) in a season • ASC’s first NJCAA Indoor Track & Field men’s basketball • named All-Region twice teams as honored National Champion in 1998 • named All-WNYAC teams. • two-year member of both the indoor and • named the ASC baseball MVP and the Most outdoor track & field teams Dedicated Player • Region III champion • is tied for 2nd all-time in the ASC indoor Vogl, the first female swimmer inducted into the record book with a vault of 15’1” Hall of Fame ASC Hall of Fame, was a two-year member of the Nominations • won the outdoor National Championship in swim team and earned All-Region and Coaches Sought the pole vault with a height of 14’6.25” All-American during both seasons. • Rodriguez and the Pioneers finished 3rd at During the 2004 NJCAA National Championships, outdoor nationals in 1998 The Alfred State she was: • ASC Senior Athlete of the Year-1998 Athletic Department • 3rd in the 100 breaststroke (1:14.69) • remains one of two Pioneer athletes to ever seeks nominations • 5th in the 200 breaststroke (2:42.51) be a national champion during the indoor for the 2012 hall • 7th in the 50 free (26.62) National Championships of fame ballot; the • 5th in 200 breaststroke (2:35.62) nominations for the • 6th in 100 breaststroke (1:13.1) 2012 ballot need to be Covert, the first lacrosse player inducted into the ASC Athletic Hall of Fame, was one of the • 11th in 100 free (58.61) during the 2005 received by May 15, National Championships 2012. A nomination program’s most electrifying offensive players, • her times in the 50 free (26.62), the 100 free form is available at helping put the Pioneers in the national spotlight. (57.64), the 100 breast (1:13.10), and the www.alfredstate.edu/ He was: 200 breast (2:35.01) are school records. athletics/athletic- • two-time All-Region selection hall-of-fame or by • NJCAA All-American during his two-year • ASC Freshman Athlete of the Year-2004 contacting Gary Moore career (first time a Pioneer lacrosse player • Senior Athlete of the Year-2005. (607) 587-4358. was ever honored by the NJCAA)

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Class Notes Wilbur C. Mull, 1967 Dale A. Tones, Industrial 1970 Agricultural Business, W. Eugene Controls, Corning, served Bob Allgrim, Audio Visual 1954 Athens, Burkhart, on the curriculum advisory Tech, Canandaigua, was Earl D. Brown, GA, Ornamental committee for Engineering promoted to director Mechancial Engineering originally Horticulture- Department at Alfred of Flight Operations at Tech-Internal Combustion from Floriculture State for 10+ years... Seneca Flight Operations, Engines, Columbus, GA, Albion, Merchandising, Blandon, Elizabeth Pinkocze a Division of Seneca has lived and worked in was PA, has been selected (Gracin), Executive Foods, in Penn Yan... numerous countries and recently as the 2011 AARP Secretarial Science, Boca states in the US. He has inducted into the State of Wesley L. Lyons, Pennsylvania’s State Raton, FL, retired from traveled to the Caribbean, Georgia Auctioneers Hall Business-Retail Business Andrus Award for IBM and is seeking to England, Iraq, China, of Fame. The high honor Management, Oswego, Community Service. reconnect with Delta Chi Syria, Egypt, Arabia, was presented during retired from Metropolitan This is AARP’s most sisters from 1965-67... Water Board for Mexico, France, and been the association’s annual prestigious and visible to 46 states... summer meeting at the 1969 Onondaga County, Aug. volunteer award, 31, 2010, after 30.5 1956 King & Prince Resort on recognizing outstanding Kenneth Beglinger, St. Simons Island, GA. Agricultural Business, years. He still works Robert A. Dicks, volunteers who are part time for the village Mechancial Tech- He also received the making a powerful Varysburg, retired from Lifetime Achievement NYS Corrections after of Phoenix as its water Mechancial Design- difference in their operator. He resides in Design & Drafting, Award from the Georgia communities, in ways 35 years of service in Green Industry... production control... Oswego, and has three Whitesboro, keeps busy that are consistent with grown children. Wesley with eight grandchildren. Roy Hughes, Electrical AARP’s mission, vision, Thomas Grealish, would like to hear from He spends January-March Engineering Tech, and strategic direction, Business Administration, any classmates or friends in Myrtle Beach, SC, Westminster, MA, retired who inspire others to Toronto, ON, (class of from Alfred State, and playing golf... from Simplex Time service. The award was ’69 president) and his can be reached at: Recorder Co. as a training formally presented to best bud Mike “Fitz” [email protected]... 1961 director in February Eugene at a ceremony at Fitzpatrick met in Toronto William J. Borst, 2000... the Crowne Plaza Hotel in for an Alfred reunion of Bryant Hozempa, Agriculture-Plant and Soil Reading, PA... two. Thom, who resides Industrial Tech, Science, Indianapolis, IN, 1964 in Toronto, is still toiling at Horseheads, is employed retired from the Indiana Diane L. Turchiarelli Frederick M. Jenness, his consulting practice... as a manager of Board of Animal Health & (Pietrowksi), Executive Building Information Systems in USDA in 2001. William Secretarial Science, Trades - Lois B. Lehning Horseheads... states, “after graduation Niagara Falls, retired from Plumbing (Bennett), Medical from Alfred Tech, I Praxair, Inc. in 2003 after & Heating, Secretarial Science, 1973 continued my education 30 years of service as an Golden Newberry, FL, has been Jack H. Howe, Liberal and obtained a BS from administrative assistant... Valley, MN, employed with the Arts & Sciences: Georgia and MS from has retired State Attorney’s Office Humanities, Lake Havasu Richard H. Weldgen, Clemson with agricultural from the in Florida as a legal City, AZ, retired and Horticulture, Webster, has majors and then worked Minnesota Pollution secretary since 2005. relocated to Arizona retired from the Weed in various agriculture Control Agency (MPCA). Lois states, “My degree after completing a 30- Man Lawncare Co. He positions with the federal Prior to retirement Fred and time at Alfred gave year career with the US continues to specialize in government and state of was named “Minnesota me great life experiences. Government...” landscape lighting under Indiana for over 34 years. Governmental Engineer I also benefited Dramatic Landscape I made the right choice of the Year;” recognition greatly throughout my Lighting by Woodlawn attending Alfred Tech for the award was made life because of my Landscapes. He recently Log on to the alumni page because it led to a very by MPCA Commissioner experiences with the built a semi-retirement of the college Web site enjoyable and satisfying Corrigan, and Deputy choral program at Alfred. home in Webster and alfredstate.edu/alumni- career...” Commissioner Applegate. Singing has certainly enjoys free time with services/transitions- He also received added to my life...” William Cady, his eight-year-old degrees from Michigan newsletter to update your Agriculture-Engineering granddaughter, Zazie... Technological University class notes. Tech Power & Mach, in civil/environmental Clermont, FL, and wife 1966 engineering, and John M. Ameroso, Annual TG Reunion 2011 Margaret (Miller), Agriculture-Plant and engineering Gannett Park, Canandaigua Clinical Lab Tech, 1961) Soil Science, Brooklyn, administration. His are celebrating their 50th retired in March 2010 engineering career wedding anniversary after 34 years as an included O’Brien & Gere this year. (They wed in ag agent with Cornell Engineers in Syracuse, Alfred, Jan. 7, 1961.) Cooperative Extension, the United States Navy William has been retired New York City Programs, Seabees, and the State from Corning, Inc. since Urban Agriculture. John of Minnesota. Fred is 1995. Margaret has been was featured in an article currently the commander retired from teaching in in the New York Times of the Veterans of Foreign the Elmira School District Dining Section May 19, Wars Post, Dresser, since 1995... 2010... WI. He and his wife, Dr. Jeanne Mohler, live in Attention class of ’69 Golden Valley, MN. Their Join the next “reunion” with Thom Grealish and Mike children are Andrea, Front row, l-r: John Blazey, Dave Willet (holding photo of the “Fitz” Fitzpatrick in Buffalo (date TBD). Interested Caitlin, Chris, and Jon, Beacon in early ’50s), Ford Easton, David Pupo, Dick Ash. parties can reach Mike at mfitzpatrick5@roadrunner. and grandchildren Ella, Back row, l-r: Larry Hall, Dave Connelly, Roger Comstock, com or Thom at [email protected]. Breonna, and Brenden... Ron Kenville, Tom Furgeson.

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1974 A restaurant in Sodus Andrew DeSantis, Audio 1983 1993 Carol Moore (Serino), Point, NY, was the Visual Tech, Wheatfield, Susan M. Parker Sarah E. Horton (Vogt), Business-Secretarial destination for a group won the 5th & 6th Emmy (Perrone), Business- Human Services, Hornell, Science-Executive, Ilion, of ladies who hadn’t Awards in New York City Secretarial Science- has been employed with retired in November been together in entirety for his news photography Executive, East Rochester, Hornell City Schools for 2010, as a court reporter for 25 years. Chris in the Spring of 2011. became a proud grandma 17 years. Sarah states, for the NYS Court System (Long) Loperfido, MLT The categories were for the first time on March “I have always wanted to for 32 years. She now ’72; Joyce Wichie, Health Science “The 23, 2011... work with children. I also freelances, still using Accounting, ’72; Sue Death of Justin Stryznek” have a part-time job at her court reporting skills & “Historical Lost & 1985 Rite Aid Pharmacy as a (Mason) Hickey, MOA, Michael Schirmer, learned at Alfred... ’73; Laura (Villardo) Found, 60 Years Later.” drug tech and clerk, and Lost & Found also won Mechanical Engineer- I love working with the Jane Ryan, Nursing, is Schultz, MLT, ’72; Kathy ing Tech-Prod & Mach (Yahn) Machado, MLT, The Edward R. Murrow public...LOVE IT...” an incumbent school Award and the Associated Design, Wilmington, DE, board member running for ’72; enjoyed looking joined Peirce College in 1994 and laughing at their Press Award for Best re-election. Currently the Historical piece. It’s about Philadelphia as an assis- Monica J. Acomb president of JE Ryan & photos from their time tant professor of business (Lewis), Nursing, at Alfred State. a WWII war plane that Associates… went down in a Russian administration responsible Whitesville, graduated from Stony Brook 1976 lake during the war only for the Entrepreneurship 1978 and Small Business Man- University July 2009 with Brian C. Lynch, Drafting/ Michele T. Davenport to be found 60 years later and returned to Niagara agement concentration... a master’s degree in child CAD, Hampstead, NC, (Thurston), Nursing, health and pediatric nurse was promoted to Corning McHenry, IL, completed Falls where it was built. It 1986 is now being restored... practitioner degree. She project manager-senior an RN to BSN program at Patrick W. McParlane, is now employed with Dr. associate with Corning, Olivet Nazarene University. 1981 Air Conditioning M. Z. Kassas as pediatric Inc., in Wilmington, NC. Michele graduated May Robert J. Skvorecz, Engineering Tech, nurse practitioner in He started working at 2010... Mechanical Engineering Orchard Park, appointed Wellsville... Corning, Inc. just two Tech-Prod & Mach vice president of client days after graduation Tracey L. McCarthy, Geoffrey Hoyt, Electrical- Medical Assistant, Design, Kinnelon, NJ, solutions at John W. from Alfred State’s was awarded patent # Danforth Co. Electronic Service Tech, Wellsville Campus. He West End, NC, moved Dansville, is employed to Pinehurst, NC, in 7,954,772 for a new way 1992 currently manages a to manufacture a wire as a SharePoint project for Corning, Inc., 2008 and works as a Trina LaFleur (Trumble), Administrator in Baghdad, clinical pharmacist at the chafing stand on June Human Services, Wells- near Pune, India, and will 7, 2011. Below, Robert, Iraq... return to the US in early Aberdeen Prescription ville, enlisted in the Air Shoppe. She does his wife of nearly 20 yrs, Force in June 1992 and Kristen A. Stewart, 2012. Other members Alexandra, and in front, Agricultural Science, of his immediate family competitive show jumping was discharged four years with her horse “Black l-r: Natalie 17, Kevin 14, later as a sergeant. She Bath, employed in May are also graduates of and Robert 16... 2011 by Central Steuben Alfred Tech: father Charles Tie Affair,” grandson of was assigned to Spang- 1977 Triple Crown winner dahlem Air Force Base, Chamber of Commerce George Lynch, ’37; sisters as a volunteer services Victoria Lynch Gibson, “Seattle Slew”... Germany; Aviano Air Force Base, Italy; and Travis coordinator. Kristen ’66; and Martha Lynch 1979 states, “I really enjoy the Shippey, ’68... Air Force Base, Califor- Beth Fitzpatrick nia. For her services as social interaction and 1977 (Fuhrman), Ornamental a purchasing agent for assisting tourists and Stephen Clacherty, Horticulture-Floriculture supplies, she earned the businesses with their Nursing, Coram, has been Merchandising, Dansville, Air Force Achievement needs...” employed at the NYS is a new grandmother! Medal, National Defense Terri J. Tebo (Morrow), Office of Mental Health Her son, Casey Service Medal, Air Force Nursing, Anniston, AL, Suffold Mobile Crisis Fitzpatrick, ’03, Building Traning Ribbon, Air Force has been employed with Team as a community Trades Construction, Recognition Ribbon, Air the Veterans Health mental health nurse since had a son, Lucas Robert Force Overseas Ribbon, Administration as a nurse May 2008... Fitzpatrick, July 17... and Air Force Expedition- educator for two years. Brenda Griffin, Business- ary Service Ribbon... She is also an adjunct Secretarial Science- instructor for the nursing 1984-87 alumni from Shults Hall, 2nd floor, reunited in April 2010 Executive, Wallkill, program at Jacksonville and Kathryn “Kelly” University in Jacksonville, Kimball, Nursing, ’77, AL... got together in August 1995 2011 to spend “Girls Just Eric C. Bosworth, Wanna Have Fun” on the Computer Science, porch of Elmira-based The Guilford, hired Aug. 2010, Christmas House... at Family Enrichment Michael A. Smith, Network as an IT Industrial Tech/Broadcast, director... Middlesex, is employed with WFLR Radio as a Please share your program director/morning news and photos with show host. “Thanks to Top, l-r: Jeff Gagnier, ’87; Eric Valentine, ’87; Mike Boadway, Elaine (Murphy) Leppien, ’86; us. You may forward the Alumni Office for Andrew Mulchinski, ’87; Ed Leppien, ’86; and Marshall Patton, ’86. information to alumni@ reconnecting me with Bottom, l-r: Lynn (Wisnewski) DiRienzo, ’86; Glenna (Beckary) Lechner, ’86; Julie (Farnham) alfredstate.edu. fellow WETD alums!...” Valentine, ’88; Madeline (Otis) Shanahan, ’86; and Shelley (Granato) Arcoraci, ’87.

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David J. Dominguez, 2005 Christina N. King, Samuel D. Rodriguez, poster presentation Food Service, Shawnee, Amy E. Irvine Liberal Arts & Sciences: Veterinary session. At the Tuskegee KS, is employed at (Beardsley), Financial Social Science, Fairport, Tech, Auburn, University 126th Annual University of Saint Mary Planning, Jasper, is has graduated with a AL, works as Spring Commencement in Kansas as head track working for Burns bachelor’s degree in a licensed exercises in May, Samuel coach for men’s and Matteson Capital nursing from Nazareth veterinary was one of six veterinary women’s cross country. Management and earning College, and accepted a technician. science graduates to David stated, “What a bachelor’s degree position as a registered In March, at receive a master of I learned from Coach in personal financial nurse at Strong Memorial the 46th Annual Tuskegee veterinary science degree. Moore on the track has planning from the College Hospital in the Burn/ University Veterinary Samuel is a member helped me excel as a of Financial Planning... Trauma ICU starting in Medical Symposium, of the Class of 2015 of university coach...” July 2011... he took first place at the the Tuskegee University College of Veterinary Richard I. Nieves, Food graduate student scientific Medicine... Service, West Haverstraw, Reunion: Honoring Wayne Carter with an Alumni Plaza brick has been a USPS postal 2007 worker letter carrier since Kyle W. Maxson, 2004 in Orangeburg. He Surveying Engineering has been a volunteer Tech, Shinglehouse, PA, firefighter for the village received Pennsylvania of Haverstraw since 1993 license of Professional and was elected captain Land Surveyor in May in April 2011... 2011. He is employed Michael E. Nolan, with GMR Consulting LLC Mechanical Tech- in Coundersport, PA... Mechanical Design- 2008 Design & Drafting, Las Robert T. Florio, Vegas, NV, has been Individual Studies (AAS employed at Las Vegas architecture), Belmont, Valley Water District for Class of ’97 (AOS 13 years and recently building construction) promoted from senior and 2009 (certificate designer to engineering in heavy equipment technician II... operations) was married 2000 July 15, 2010, and runs Gilbert E. Green, a general contracting Mechanical Design company in Belmont. Engineering Tech, Cuba, Robert states, “I look received the Dick Teetsel forward to visiting the 2011 Outstanding campus again soon; Official Award at the Front row, l-r: Margaret Kerton, ’61; Albert Kerton, ’57; Mary (Driscoll) Smith, ’55; I see that there is a NYS Track and Field and Audrey Mogenhan, ’56; Ed Mogenhan. lot happening on the Cross Country Officials Middle row, l-r: John Markwica, ’57; Ramona (Moses) Allen; Nitia Cole; Agnes Comes, ’56; campus...” Association meeting Joan Livingston; Wayne Carter, professor emeritus, 1953-78. Jennifer K. Lorow, during NYS Track and Back row, l-r: Russell Allen, ’55; John Cole, ’55; James Comes, ’56; Liberal Arts & Sciences: Field Championships President John Anderson; Bob Livingston, ’56; Missing from the photo: John Carlenio, ‘57. Humanities, Binghamton, in June at Caledonia- working on a master’s of Mumford High School. Some of the above alumni started in in 1955 we have met at least once a science in education and Gilbert (1973, 2000) the floriculture course in fall 1953. year in different places. This year was will be certified in early was a member of the Immediately we all bonded and especially meaningful for us to visit childhood, childhood Alfred 2000 National became a very active Hortus Club. We the Alfred campus and see Professor education, and as a Outdoor Championship had classes in an old funeral parlor Wayne Carter’s brick placed at the literacy specialist... Track and Field team. which was across from the current Alumni Plaza under the bell tower. As a United States of post office. Professor Wayne Carter 2009 Christopher M. Kolmel, America Track and Field would always come early to stoke Professor Wayne & Edna Carter were Official he has helped the furnace so we would be warm. Welding Tech, Groton, is very caring toward students. Edna employed with Square with Alfred State’s hosting Our greenhouses were behind our would invite students to their home for of national championship classroom, and our student-run flower Deal Machining, Inc., in special desserts. Wayne attended the Marathon as a welder... competitions. ... shop was where the post office is now. first reunion and has been central to After classes we would gather at the all of our gatherings. He has had our Alex D. Spicola, 2003 Huddle or Collegiate for soda pop. At Jesse S. O’Brien, admiration and respect as a mentor. Information Technology: times we went to “Down the Road” and Getting to know him outside our Network Administration, Computer Art and Design, also “Kant-U-Come Inn” for socializing. Oswego, is enrolled in an classroom we have come to love him Corning, is employed Marion Sapienza Brown would make as one of the kindest, most thoughtful, at Corning, Inc., as a MFA program in computer spaghetti sauce for approximately animation, so that he will humorous, and humane individuals. server analyst. Alex is 50 of us, and other girls would cook He is a fine example of what we could now the primary global be able to teach it at the pasta and make salads at the Almond college level... all aspire to as we journey through life. administrator for Citrix Grange. Of course we invited other and doing quite a bit friends to this gathering and they also Submitted by Audrey Warning of traveling around the enjoyed our group. So much so, we Mogenhan, ’56 country for work... have remained lifelong friends. Starting

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Edgar Ueno, Computer Marriages 1992 1950 1987 Information Systems, Sao Jeffrey L. Nelson, Gerald Hart, Agricultural Anna M. Damrath, Paulo, Spain, is employed 1975 Construction Engineering Business, Wellsville, Aug. Business Admin., Hornell, at Siemens in Brazil, Julie Porter (Kreher), Tech, Darien, CT, and wife 19, 2011... Sept. 3, 2011... as a systems support Accounting, Clarence, and Cathryn, are the parents engineer... husband Tim, celebrated of son August James 1954 1990 the wedding of their Harold J. Miller, Christopher Lowe, Julie Weaver, Nelson, born May 25, daughter Monica, to Nate 2010. Jeff works as a Electrical Engineering General Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, Brenneman on Sept. 3 in Tech, Zephyrhills, FL, Baldwinsville, July 12, Ithaca, graduated from senior project engineer Washington DC... with Judlau Contracting, retired faculty, Nov. 30, 2011... TC3 in May 2011, with 2010... degrees with honors 1986 building subway tunnels in 2001 in: (AS) recreation Karen M. Williams NYC. This summer they 1955 Virginia R. Haynes, leadership, (AS) liberal (Sick), Accounting, got together with another Patricia A. Bowers Computer Art and Design, arts & sciences: social Cicero, married Basil ASC alum, Marylin (Parson), Medical Yucaipa, CA, July 26, science, and (CERT) Williams Jan. 8, 2011... (Heuther) Bennett, ’91 Laboratory Tech, Rome, 2011... general studies. She is and her wonderful family, April 2, 2011... currently a student at 1993 during their vacation... 2006 Cortland majoring in (BS) Jennifer N. Clark 1957 Frederick Brendan recreation... (MacNaughton), John F. McKay, Business, Horn, Individual Studies, Ornamental Cornelius, NC, April 28, Sayville, July 1, 2011... 2010 Horticulture-Floriculture 2011... Amy L. Cohen, Liberal Merchandising, Livonia, College Friends Arts & Sciences: Social married Shannon Clark 1958 Jean W. Bailey, Hornell, Science, Churchville, Sept. 4, 2010... Robert Donnelly, retired Alfred State employed with Easter 1997 Agriculture-Animal secretary, July 14, Seals of New York... 1998 Mindy Ostrander Science, May 24, 2011... 2011... Odell L. Beverly, (Burnside), Business- Duane L. Graham, Julie Byron, Almond, for Stephanie A. Kisko, Baking Production & Secretarial Science-Word Veterinary Tech, Accounting, Angelica, the past 28 years Julie Management, Stowe, PA, Processing, Jamestown, Aug. 9, 2011... had been employed as a Mainesburg, PA, is is employed at Sutherland and husband Joshua employed at Veterinary Jack Hanel, Undeclared food preparer and server Global as a team leader, are the parents of Tyler for Aces Dining Hall on Medical Center as a married Angela Beverly on Joshua, born Dec. 14, Major, Charlotte, NC, TG veterinary technician… brother, July 22, 2011... the Alfred Campus, May Feb. 25, 2006... 2010... 19, 2011... Richard Payne, Liberal 2003 2003 1961 Arts, Worcester, MA, David F. Conde, began Patricia L. Barney (Pye), Erica L. David A. DeVoll, his distinguished career has been employed at Computer Information Matteson Agriculture-Plant and Soil Bulbs.com as a lighting at Alfred State Technical Systems, Scio, married (Scott), Science, Callaway, VA, College in 1959, in 1989 specialist/sales for five Mike Barney June 6, Health Feb. 23, 2011... years... became dean of the 2010... Information John A. Torgesen, School of Engineering Tech/Medical Agricultural Business, until his retirement in 2010 Records, Matthew S. Kidder, Cranford, NJ, Feb. 6, 1994, May 7, 2011... Whitesville, and husband 2011... Heavy Equipment: Truck Bret are the parents of Robert Decker, retired & Diesel Tech, Avoca, Landon Timothy, born William Walker, drafting instructor, Sept. married Ciara Katelyn April 25. They also have Ornamental 2011... Connally at Cascade a four-year old son, Horticulture-Floriculture David L. Jones, Garden July 2, 2011... Holden. Erica graduated Merchandising, Wellsville, taught history SUNY IT in 2006 (BPS). Interlaken... and political science at She is employed at 1965 ASC, retiring in 1994. Births Alfred State College as Kay G. Allen (Giles), While at Alfred, he served an Instructional Support Medical Sec Science, as president of the United 1999 Assistant for the Health University Professions Nicole Wilmington, NC, Feb. 7, Information Technology 2011... and was chairman of the (Eckert) program... Faculty Senate, Sept. 5, Andriaccio, 1977 2011... and her Robert E. Kristiansen, David Barry Lash, Alfred, husband Drafting/CAD, Lawrence, retired director of libraries Dean Deaths KS, Feb. 27, 2011... announce the birth of at Alfred State in 1991, 1943 a post he held for four Dean Michael Andriaccio, Wilfrid S. Fenton, 1978 David A. Sleeper, years, Sept. 1, 2011... Pictured here is the TG Jr., born June 2, 2011... 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